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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Support for fixed-scan monitors
Date: 5 Sep 1996 06:37:09 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Arve Ronning <Arve.Ronning@alcatel.no> wrote:

...
> gives X on both monitors (until XFree86 3.1.2 that is. I still use 3.1.1
> because later versions have a text-drawing bug in the Hercules code. Maybe
> 3.1.2F :) ).

Unreported bugs are unlikely to be fixed.

> As you may have guessed by now, this requires patching in the FreeBSD boot
> code.

With pcvt, i think you should be able to use the unpatched driver, as
long as your BIOS uses the monochrome adapter as the primary one.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)